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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
Brought over 95 4-4 64 20 3 £17.10.0
Lady Findlater Banff Castle Elizabeth Elmslie
Margaret Livnie
Isobel Brown
3 3 £1.10.0
George Strachan Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Nelly Duff Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Fife Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
James Webster Female Servant 1 1 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Adam Urquhart Agnes Sim Etc. 2 2 £0.2.6
Mrs. Elde Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Andrew Skeene Minister Female Servants 2 2 £0.10.0
107 5-4 68 24 6 £20.15.0

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Town of Banff Continued
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I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination
of the foregoing Several Rates & Dutys, I find they Amount in whole to Twenty Pound
Fifteen Shillings Sterling, and that I delivered to James Anderson Collector of said Duties
In the Town of Banff upon the Twentieth day of December One Thousand Seven hundred & Eighty
six Years, An exact Duplicate of the above Account duly Examined & Compared with the Foregoing
which Contained my Oath that notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwel
-ling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid In order that they might make a Report
of the greatest Number of Female Servants retain'd [retained] & Employed by them for the period
therein mentioned which they did in Substance as above
Patrick McDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me at Forres this 11 day of Jany [January] 1787 Alexander Grant Esq.

Prooff
5 Bs. [Bachelor] Servants at 5/ [£0.5.0] Each is £1.5.0
4 Bs. [Bachelor] Servants at 10 [£0.10.0] Each is £2.0.0
68 Servants at 2 sh 6 [£0.2.6] Each is £8.10.0
24 Servants at 5 sh [£0.5.0] Each is £6.0.0
6 Servants at £ sh 10 [£0.10.0] Each is £3.0.0
£20.15.0

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